Carissa-isms

Our little (almost) 27 month old is quite the entertainer. You would not think she is only 27 months for how well she talks. She does not talk baby talk and very few words does she mess up. She still says "Kafryn" ... but she can say her "th" when she says "this" or "that" or "there" etc. She speaks perfect sentences - articles, verbs, nouns, pronouns, etc - in the proper order. Absolutely outstanding.
So with her wildly large vocabulary and conversation skills, she is also developing quite the imagination and basic thought processes. I really need to start writing down all the little things she says or does that crack me up!

I decided to go ahead and journal some highlighted favorites:

* While starting to lose her balance, she said, "Woooooaaaahhh! I'm okaaaay!"

* Anytime Kathryn starts pulling at her she says, "Kafryn!! Don't ... get ... me!!"

* She was sitting on a blanket on the floor and had pulled the sides of the blanket up around her and said, "I'm in a boat. Great idea Rissa!"

* We have a pump for an exercise ball, and it has a long blue tube (kind of like a flexible straw) that she has been playing with as if it were a stethoscope. She will go up to someone and say, "Rissa measure __(name of person/animal)__'s heart" while putting it up the way a doctor does.

* Today she had me crawl on the floor with her so we could "creepy crawl past dragon's cave." And when I asked her where the dragon's cave was, she took me to the window, and we had to hide behind the curtains from the dragon.

* Out of the blue tonight she said, "Dash speak Spanish." Dash is the dog. Thank you Dora for teaching my daughter that animals can speak.

* She has started a new kick of her "favorite" things. Today she came and said, "Rissa want 'nother favorite snack." I had no idea what snack she was referring to, so we went in the kitchen to find it. She had me open the fridge, and she looked. She pointed to the produce bin and said, "in there." So I opened it and she looked some more. Then pointed at the lunchmeat/cheese bin and said, "in there." I opened it and she looked and chose some cheese. While she was eating her cheese the dogs came up to her and I heard her say, "No ... this Rissa's favorite snack ... favorite cheese."
    .......... Then later in the day, she told me she wanted "Rissa's favorite food." And when I asked her what Rissa's favorite food was, she thought a min and said, "Cake ... yeah!" Silly girl.

* Normally when she gets a boo boo and asks me to kiss it, I ask her to let me look at it. So now anytime she gets a boo boo, she comes to show me and says, "Mommy, look it boo boo on _(bodypart)___ ... kiss it!"

* She says "Look it this" a lot! She loves showing us things!

*She has also started the questions! She says, "What's in there?" or "What is it/that?" or "Where'd __(something)___ go?"
      The cutest time ... We were loading up to go to GiGi and Papa's for Thanksgiving and Daddy had already loaded her little potty in the car. She needed to go potty and she looked all around and seemed frustrated and said, "Where did Rissa's potty go?"

*Today she randomly started singing, "Santa Claus coming to town." We've been talking to her about Santa this year, and she's seen him on TV or pictures and even had her picture taken with them. Well, tonight she was on a kick of "Want Santa bring you presents!" At one point I asked her what kind of present and she said, "Dora presents!"

* Her Great-Grandma (Ninny) and her Great-Great-Grandma (Mema) were just here for a visit and she loved that! She would come and get Mema's finger and say, "Come on Mema" and take her somewhere. But the funniest thing was David had been throwing her in the air and when he got tired from throwing a 36lb girl in the air, she turned put her hands up to her GREAT-GREAT-Grandmother and said, "how bout Mema throw Rissa" Oh that was too funny! There was no way Mema could have lifted that big girl - let alone throw her in the air lol!

* This one bout broke my heart! I took Ninny and Mema back to the airport early this morning while Carissa was still sleeping. When I got home, she ran to greet me saying, "Mommy!! Ninny!! Mema!!" As soon as she realized I was alone she looked sad and said, "Mommy, where's Ninny and Mema?" I love how she loves them and how attached she gets to people she loves!

* David has a screen saver on his computer that is bubbles. She loves to pop bubbles, so they pretend to pop them on his screen. Today she went up to him and said, "Rissa pop bubbles Daddy puter."

* We have MarioKart on the Wii ...and one of the tracks is called "Moo Moo Meadows" and has cows on it. Carissa loves that and will occasionally grab a Wii-mote and say, "Rissa race cows"

And best of all ... She has started going around and randomly saying, "This is Rissa Gunter ... That's Mommy ... That's Kafryn ..." and name everyone. And if you ask her, "What's your name?" She says, "name Rissa Gunter" Oh I love it!!

I am sure I could think of many more. And I'm sure I could fill a notebook if I wrote them down as she says things. I hope you have enjoyed our Carissa-isms as much as we have! :)